Category: Come Together
The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest and Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Press evolved as a collectively-run, DIY publishing project concurrent with the globalization movement. In the late 90s, the less monetized territory of networked protests and the insurgency of relational and tactical media opened up a stage for new forms of collectivities, movements and publics.
For the editors, publishing was an opportunity to create a critical platform—a public space where the benefits to large groups act to ameliorate the ambitions of individual writers, subjects, or editors.
Many years in the making, New-York-City based 16 Beaver Group announced today the initiation of a complex multiyear process that will produce the largest global merger of arts and politics collectives known to date. Critics immediately attacked the move as being, “out of touch with recent developments in art and economics.” But the group argued at their press conference that the new mega-art collective, which will use the acronym C.A.R.T.E.L. (the group did not specify what each letter stands for) will soon be ready to compete within the current monopolistic anti-marketplace.
Recent Articles
- ART WORK at Carnegie Mellon University’s Miller Gallery, Feb. 1-28
- ABC No Rio, NY, Discussion, February 18th
- Money! Money! Money!, February 12th, Sprout Spaghetti Dinners
- Art Work Discussion, MCAC, Bloomington/Normal, IL
- Art Work in Grand Rapids, Michigan
- Art Work at Gallery 400, Chicago
- Art Work at Conduit Gallery, Dallas
- Intermedia Porch Gallery & Public Space One, Iowa City
- Personal Economy #16
- Events in Austin (Jan. 22) and Houston (Jan. 23 & 24)
Selected Moments in the History of Economic Art
1924 – Marcel Duchamp issues Monte Carlo Gambling Bond
The Monte Carlo Gambling Bond [Obligations pour la roulette de Monte Carlo] was a small edition Marcel Duchamp made using cut-and-pasted gelatin silver prints on a lithograph with letterpress. The Marcel Duchamp Studies Online Journal (MDSOJ) describes the bond:
A parody of a financial document in a system for playing roulette, this Readymade revolves around the idea of monetary transactions. Giving himself the position of Administrator, Marcel Duchamp conceived of a joint stock company designed to raise 15,000 francs and thus “break the bank in Monte Carlo”. It was to be divided into 30 numbered bonds for which Duchamp asked 500 francs each. However, less than eight were actually assembled[...].
About
Art Work is a newspaper and accompanying website that consists of writings and images from artists, activists, writers, critics, and others on the topic of working within depressed economies and how that impacts artistic process, compensation and artistic property. The newspaper is distributed for free at sites and from people throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. It is also available by mail order from Half Letter Press for the cost of postage.
Distribution
Art Work is being distributed throughout the 50 United States and Puerto Rico (among other locations). To find a hard copy of Art Work near you, please read on.
Major support for SPACES is provided by The Cleveland Foundation; Cuyahoga Arts and Culture; The George Gund Foundation; Donna and Stewart Kohl; Kulas Foundation; Toby Devan Lewis; National Endowment for the Arts; Nimoy Foundation; and the Ohio Arts Council.
Art Work is partly funded by Lauren Rich Fine & Gary Giller and the John P. Murphy Foundation.